Sunday, March 23, 2008

My work this week wouldn't fit on my dress form so I took pictures of the "customers" themselves.

My oldest daughter picked her dress out in a store at the Super Mall in Washington. I took pictures with my cell phone and then reproduced it in her size here at home.

My middle daughter picked her dress out of the Wooden Solider catalog and I embellished with brown flowers and ribbons so she would coordinate with her sisters.My "baby" also picked her dress out of the same catalog but insisted it be floor length instead of tea length so I did a few alterations to the design to come up with something we both liked.

Next up on my list is Alice, something I've always wanted to do and then the Orange doodle bop guy. Back to work!

Monday, March 17, 2008

The shiny ribbons on the bottom weren't quite what the customer wanted so after much deliberation and a little experimentation I dismantled the bottom 1/4 of the dress removed the shiny ribbons, made 240 inches of satin bias tape and put it all back together again.

None of that made me very excited but I really do want everyone to like what they buy. I am very aware of how much my dresses really cost. I think the dress turned out well and I'm glad that we were able to come to a happy solution.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

Tomorrow I have the pink rectangles on the sleeve (I don't know it's part of the picture), the zipper, and lighter purple ribbons to go above and below the purple stripe. There is the hat too but hopefully it won't be too much.